Smilisca sila Duellman and Trueb, 1966
Smilisca sila Duellman and Trueb, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 318. Holotype: KU 91852, by original designation. Type locality: "a small stream at north edge of the village of El Volcán, Chiriquí, elevation 1280 meters", Panama.
Hyla sila — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 25. by implication.
English Names
Panama Cross-banded Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).
Distribution
Humid Pacific lowlands of southwestern Costa Rica to eastern Panama; Caribbean lowlands of Panama and northern Colombia, 10-970 m elevation.
Comment
See account by Duellman, 1968, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 63: 1-2, Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 609-613, and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 993-995 (who suggested that Smilisca sila is the sister taxon of Smilisca sordida). See accounts by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 354-355, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 342-344.
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